Gary Marcus's $100k 2022 Bet With Elon Musk Resurfaces and 'Did Not Age Well'
JeremyNguyenPhD · x · 2026-09-22
Gary Marcus offered Elon Musk a $100k bet in 2022: by 2029, AI would not be able to watch a movie and accurately describe what's happening. With today's multimodal models already parsing video, users are dredging up the bet to mock how badly it has aged.
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